The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 3, 1929, Page 2

Gr TRENCH WARFARE | BORN 65 YEARS AGO AROUND PETERSBURG Armies of Grant and Lee,' Locked in Death Grips July, | 1864, Set War Style. | HIDDEN TUNNELS ARE FOUND | Mystery Added to Battle Mines of Virginia Site Where Tac- ticians Study Methods Petersburg, Va., July 3.—The great- | est battlefield in the new world—the Place where trench warfare was de- vised half a century before the World ‘war—is at last to become a national military park, maintained and pre- served by the federal government. After 40 years of effort the battle- ground that saw 10 months of fight- ing is to get treatment similar to that. which has made such fields as Gettys- burg and Vicksburg national shrines. Ask the average American what were the greatest battles of the Civil ‘war and he will name Gettysburg, the Antietam, Vicksburg, Chancellorsville —and let it go at that. Yet from the point of view of lives lost, numbers engaged and duration of hostilities there is not a field in America that compares with Petersburg. ‘A Ten-Months Battle | Here, a score miles due south of Richmond, Lee and Grant came to the final grip that eventually brought defeat to the southern confederacy. From the early part of June, 1864, until Lee's retreat to Appomattox in of the western front in the World war. More than 200 miles of trenches and fortifications were built by the two armies. Nearly half of these remain intact today, and will be preserved for future generations by the recent act of congress which makes the field of Petersburg a national park. Very like the battlefields of France battlefield of Petersburg. For army officers from many couny have visited the place to study warfare. Many of the tactics both sides in the World war of lessons learned from the e §. Will Open Great Tunnel ‘The park will consist of a rambling stretch of land taking in the two main lines of trenches, with a broad “T've already had my soda; better way to rest your fect.” ists, probably, will be the tunnel that led to the crater. In July, 1864, federal troops dug a shaft 541 feet long, leading directly under the confederate lines. Four tons of gunpowder were put in it and ex- | Ploded by a long fuse. Assault Was a Failure This tremendous explosion ripped open a hole 200 feet long, 100 fect wide, and 30 feet decp. As was 50 often the case in the World war, the confederates discovered that a mine was in preparation, and at the time of the explosion most of the troops had been withdrawn from that point. The disaster, consequently, was not as and when the federal troops charged into the crater they were met with a determined resistance that made the attack a bloody failure. Equally interesting, and far more mysterious, is the long chain of tun- nels recently discovered behind the confederate lines. There is an in- tricate network of these, running be- neath many confederate trenches—yet no one knows just why they were dug. Civil war histories make no men- tion of them, and historians have been unable to find any survivors of the battle who remember what they were for. Today they are in perfect condition. Next to the tunnels in popular in- terest are the two famous forts—Fort highway running along the “no man’s land” between them. Side roads will to other points of interest. The which federal soldiers famous “battle of the be made accessible to will whole networks of and sides dugouts constructed interesting in the eyes of tour- ran bell E of the line. Sedgewick in the federal lines and Fort Mahone, opposite it in the con- federate lines. The earthen walls of these great entrenchments are still shell fragments, and after a heavy any visitor can casily dig up hrndfuls of these grim trinkets at almost any point. Erecting Monuments Markers of bronze and granite are already erected to commemorate par- E [” Weather Report j 5 . 91 57 o Btations i I gg i z £3 3¢ North Dakota— 55 .27 Cloudy 57 0 Clear . 7 53 02 PtCidy 83 55 0 Clear 76 52 .02 Cloudy Dickinson 91 57° 0 Clear Drake .. 81 55 O Clear Dunn Center ....94 55 0 Clear Ellendale . -86 54 0 PtCldy Fessenden 83, 55 02 y Grand Forks 73 54 0 Cloudy Hettinger . 90 62 0 Clear Jamestown 81 51 0 Cloudy Larimore 74 50 0 Cloudy Lisbon . 80 58 0 Cloudy Max . 88 65 O Clear ‘Minot 86 57 «(0 es, Napoleon 87 68 0 Cloudy Pembina . 84 43° «0 «~PtCldy Banish . 88 66 10 Clear Wishek . +. 92 68 0 Cloudy “Williston . 90 64 10 Clear Moorhead, — 58 40 Cloudy For Bismarck and vicinity: Gener- ticular battles and deeds of heroism. One of the most interesting marks the spot where the battle of Petersburg opened—a skirmish in which a couple of hundred Petersburg “home guards” held off the van of Grant's flanking army long enough to let Lee know what was happening and enable him to shift his army to meet the surprise attack. Another marks the desperate battle of Fort Gregg, where a Mississippi regiment, covering Lee's retreat to Appomattox, fought off several federal brigades for eight hours, with the loss of nearly nine-tenths of its num- bers. This was the last action at Petersburg. ‘The state of Virginia has tried for years to get Petersburg made into a national park. Only now, however, have its efforts been successful. Pe- tersburg, it should be noted, is the OUT OUR WAY —J >, — SAM -1S ally fair tonight and Thursday. Cool- a bale nul a great as the union leaders had hoped, ! filled with bullets, cannon balls and! ies, [HOU FELERS SURE Si.4S KEEP YOUR HANDS CLEAN FOR SutrH A IEMOKY NEIGHBORHOOD. |B [_ SIDE GLANCES - - - - By George Clark |/FLIERS ARE FETED 161929 WEA strurcend 66 us PAL OFF fifth Civil war battlefield to be given this distinction. [ AT THE MOVIES e CAPITOL THEATRE During the production of “Speak- ; easy,” an all-talking picture which is now at the capitol theatre, it was no uncommon sight to see a group of actors and actresses gathered together in one of the large recital halls ad- Joining the stages, going through their lines under the supervision of an astute stage director. To Paul Page, Lola Lane, He Walthall, Warren Hymer, Helen Ware, Stuart Erwin, Sharon Lynn and Erville Alderson, the principal players, this was nothing new, for without exception the entire cast has been recruited from the legitimate stage. To old time motion picture workers, the members of the mechanical staff, it was something decidedly new, strange, but exceedingly interesting. The Fox Movietone version of “Speakeasy,” was adapted from the successful stage play written by Ed- ward Knoblock and George Rosener. Benjamin Stoloff directed. Schilling Endorses Moscrip for Board Minneapolis, July 3—(@)—W. F. Schilling, president of the Twin City Milk Producer's today endorsed the appointment of W. A. Moscrip, to the federal farm board and thereby cleared the way for Mr. Moscrip’s ac- ceptance to the position. Mr. Schilling had been endorsed for a place on the board by the Milk Producer's organization and many other farm and farm marketing or- ganizations. Announcements in Washington that the northwest place on the new board had been had been offered to Mr. Moscrip caused a stir in the Twin City Milk Producer's as- sociation, Mr. Moscrip has withheld acceptance of the appointment and has been in conference two days with farm organization leaders. He indi- cates his decision depended largely on the wishes of the directors of the Twin City Milk Producer's in which. as secretary and treasurer he has been associated with Mr. Schilling for many years. Mr. Schilling, by telephone today, offered Mr. Moscrip his endorsement and support and to telegraph Pres- ident Hoover to that effect. This ac- tion by Mr. Schilling was regarded as making Mr. Moscrip's acceptance a forgone conclusion. « ° % THAT A BIRD) =F OR AN AIR PLANE ON RETURN T0 SPAIN Franco and Companions Pre- pare for Journey by Rail to Spanish Capital Algeciras, Spain, July 3—(4)—The Spanish transatlantic aviators rested here today in preparation for a quick train ride tonight to Madrid and their country’s official reception and thanksgiving in that capital tomor- Tow. Return of Major Ramon Franco and his three companions here has been, and will be there, marked prob- ably with as fervid enthusiasm as would have been the case if they were returning from a conquest of the At- lantic, rather than having been thwarted in their attempt to cross it by air. A ball after an officail banquet and reception here last evening continued throughout the night, the aviators finally retiring and leaving the mer- rymakers behind. At the banquet there were toasts to the officers of the Eagle, six of whom were present including Captain N. F. Laurence, D. 8. ©. and Lieutenant R. A. Kilroy, who first sighted the missing aviators. Instructions were received from General Primo De Rivera, Spanish dictator, that the English officers should be considered guests of the nation during their stay. They will go to Madrid tonight and tomorrow they will visit the exposition at Se- ville where an elaborate reception has been planned in their honor. Major Franco and his companions, Major Eduardo Gonzales Gallarza, Captain Julio Ruiz De Alda, and the mechanic, Pendro Madariaga, are planning a flight very soon to Alex- andria, Egypt, in an attempt to better the hydroairplane distance record. Lay General Program For Southwest Farms College Station, Tex., July 3.—()— Formulation of a regional program for conservation and utilization of south- western farm land will be the object of a cenference at Texas A. and M. college. T. O. Walton, president of A. and M., has called the meeting. All “institutions and interests con- cerned with the fullest development of land in the southwest” have becn invited to attend. French Living Cost Index at High Mark Paris, July 3.—(4)—Ranging from 6 to 1 to 8 to 1 as compared with prices of necessities in July, 1914, the in- dex of the cost of living in France is now higher than at any time since the war. Official statistics published by the ministry of commerce hold out no hope for a decreasé but warn that prices may continue to rise. Textiles lead in the increase with 1.75 to 1; sugar, coffee and cacao are &@ good second with 6.91; vegetables ry 6.41; foodstuffs, 6.10 dnd meats Taking the average of all neces- sities, it now costs residents in France 6.53 times more to live here than it did in 1914. Salaries have increased about 3 to 1. ORIENTAL BEAUTY RIVALS WESTERN Paris, July 3.—(NEA)—When it comes to classify feminine pulchritude the orient has it all over the west, is the belief of Mrs. Fay Kazi, Egyptian delegate to the French League of Woman's Rights. “The types of women I saw in New York and Paris, Berlin and London are nothing but cheap imitations of men,” she declares. “The women of the east, and of Egypt particularly, have remained true daughters of Eve. “In Egypt and in other eastern countries woman has managed to guard something of her allure and at- traction; in Paris and New York she has shed all decorum like an ancient and outworn garment and has fol- lowed the mode and tempo set by man. “Come with me to the east,” she says, “and I will show you feminine beauty that will dazzle your eyes.” By W illiams THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1929 eatest Civil War Battlefield to Become Another National Park } Daily Cross-word Puzzle Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 10. Secure inrial fever ik Re SITIAPREMMCILAT IMIS] ,, 5 DGAQGR BoOwooS rojaleielolclKMl alo! Cincinnati, O.—It’s almost a legend | the ice came almost up to the on the river—the tale of how his boys| and houses. And when the took home the body of old Captain | Green started breal through, t! Green. ice blocks crashed it into “Like all folk lore, I assume that | windows and all but wrecked it has been changed many times in| of the buildings. But the the telling and has been affected by|on. Then they would the imagination of the narrator. And | bridge and they'd have to yet, for all I know, the story as I} down the masts and lower heard it while riding down the Ohio} stacks. They was determ! under a crescent moon may be true | the flag at half mast no in every detail. happened, so up would go the s * again and up would go the flag and “The packet Tom Green was layin’) they’d straighten things up and off in at Cincinnati,” began the mate, | they’d go. | who is an old riverman. “And the old} “The while it got colder and colder skipper—Morgan Green was his|and a blizzard wind was coming down name—had been ailing. The old fel-|the river. And the old boat was be- low died, but before he went he/ ginning to feel the shock. You know {| turned to his two boys and he said, I| we operate with a stern wheel pad- | want to be buried at home—you'll | dle, and the paddles would get bust~ take me home, won't you?” ed by the ice when they came around, “and Tom, for whom the boat is|or they would stick and someone named, nodded. would have to go out with a plank “Well sir, it was the kind of a win- | and some naijs and put them to- ter that you read about. Not a tug | gether. nor @ packet was moving along the| “It was six days, if you'll believe it, whole length of that there stream. It | getting to Newport—and the old pack- was frozen over stiff and the et was pretty much banged up. They was high. And the home of the skip- | had to do a lot of re; of her. i igg 1% Saret 19. Certain 20. Withered 1. Pall after ofa 4 ES anus 43, Large fi 43, One of the Apostles itsburgh. boys go down and look at | word to each other, just kept repair- the river and it’s blocked full of ice. | ing the mast and the breaks and look- ‘They shake their heads and look at | ing after the stacks and the steering one another—and they say to each | until they was home when they looked other, ‘Buddy, we'll take him home!’ | at one another and smiled sort of— “If you don’t know the Ohio river | ‘well, we did it,’ they said. And when and if you don’t know the packets, | we first heard of it, none of us would you don’t know what that meant. We | believe it.” carry mighty high smokestacks “I haven't done justice to the tale— there's @ lot of bridges to get under— | I've merely passed it on. It’s one of and how was they to skate along | those stories you've got to let your through the ice with the water high— and all that—and get to Newport? It imagination run a bit loose on—and even then you might not get the pic- would be bad enough just to have to a break through the ice alone. ture of the two crashing down through the ice in mid-winter gale: “Well, they put a flag at half mast and off they went. 1S and the staunch little old packet tak- “Almost right off the bat they met ing home its skipper. with trouble. In some of the towns, GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) id | One = Volkman, If 3 1 3 0 ier J fame || Additional | § 212 a at at ot Bo zo 40 ee aa ers e 40 16 27 13 " In Diamond Ball, ABH FO 4 5 10 2 ———_— 20 00 s 5 3 0 0 Bank of North Dakota and High : : : a - School Win Easy Games es £8 Fy Vestenz, If, p . 621 2 in Local League Vonderhelt, 2b 50 41 | Dolvin, p, If 400 4 L G. " Batting averages bop in last | Zwenke, cf ... os 0114 | » BUU' night as the Bank o! Dakota —---- By aaiemate " and the high school teams ran up Total ...... M4 11 2% 13 i a cages = — . {mammoth scores in two scheduled| Score by inning: Pbychala va One night, re fier “Dad wrote another for $60,000. games of the oe diamond ball [aaa eee oo _ pied ” fore, Alex Peterson en is "the ft league last night. le Lake . all —_ picturesque career to become staid | 9 Bieter aah geal ek Results follow: Errors—Boehm, Linquist 2, Vestenz, Andrew Ogden. Ogden’s son, Jer- ry, is retelling his father's story of that night of horror. Peterson's younger brother, also named Jer- ry, had been sentenced to hang by a miners’ trial. He admits Bank of North Dakota. 16 Provident Life .. 1 Adam Brown and Dave Cook; Ran- dall Kratz and Doc Krause. a High Capitol 3 Gilmore, Krush, Leif, Mickel. Stolen bases—Thole, Leif, Boehm, Linquist. Sacrifices—Thole. ‘Two base hite—W. like @ death house. Lundy wrote an TOU for $100,000. “Dad said he forgot the stinking heat, Richey, MacCoy, the jam at the door. He only saw Lundy's fist, the backs of his five cards, the blinking Home runs—Vestenz, Linquist, Michel, robbing Joe Lundy's safe. Peter- | O oe Hotere Ben Jacobson and Fay Brown; | Flinn, Krush, Double or triple plays son defies the mob, locks his | Yes behind them ... and beyond, aloo) ‘pune prenner, ‘Tracy and|—Kusler, Vonderhelt, Boehm. Hits brother in the Two Brothers mine | White-faced boy in a dark tunnel. | Rote: BYr ¥ off Dolven 9 in 4 innings; off Vestenz ... He was asking himself if the devil or chance had given Lundy the four kings or the rare straight flush. He Pulled himself up. Lundy was prob- ably betting on a full house. He'd stick by his queens. “There was ® quarter of a million in the pot. Hence dg aioe end wins a delay until morning. Accepting Lundy's invitation to play poker, Peterson senses Lun- dy’s diabolical plan to gamble for the life of Jerry. With gripping intensity the game moves toward its climax, 6 in 5 innings; off Michel 11 in 9 inn- ings. Struck out by Dolvin 2; by Vestenz 2; by Michel 4. Bases on balls off Dolvin 1; off Vestenz 1; off Michel 1. Hit by piteher—Gilmore. Time of game—2 hours. Umpires— Anderson and Newman. 6 Local-Teams to Play July 4 Tilts pecmsset Lundy’s, and £90,000 dad’ “4 CHARTER mainder had been or Three of Six Games Scheduled! ,AACOLEQN 3: MAZELTON 1 A HUMAN LIFE AT STAKE | ey’s. Dad calculated swiftly. At that Bi anv: Pistia y ae a agin 4 . The drama of the weird situation | time he had available about $300,000, for Bismarck and One = | Herr. ¢ .... Boe ee { held us in motionless attention. Jerry, | so he could bet another $210,000. He for Mandan Park Mitzel, 1b 4161 visibly affected, continued in a hushed | thought about it for a moment longer, i 5040 tone. then he wrote a check on his Los —_— gy lew eines “Lundy sat with his shoulders; Angeles bank for $300,000 payable to| Six Bismarck and Mandan baseball 4020 hunched up and his cards held close | Joe Lundy. Tearing up his IOU’S, he|teams will perform in six games in 2020 to his eyes. His eyes leaped from his | slid the check under one of the stacks |the Bismarck district tonight and to- aceo.% own hand to the back of dad's; his | of blues. tL ee lips twitched, grinning, and he moist-| “Lundy breathed gustily, took off 1000 ened them with the tip of his tongue. | his glasses, and wiped his face with| Bismarck Pirates Bnid pee a dears The men behind dad seemed to have; @ dirty handkerchief. his|east-end diamond at 6:30 o'clock to- tee ee | stopped breathing, so dead still was night, it is announced by Charlie 3 5 27 8 the room, yet dad said the air quiv- Blue, Knight manager, iit ered like a harp string. Somebody | $300,000, payable to dad, The July Fourth program follows: ABH POA behind him whispered: burned his IOU’s and scribbled on the/ Bismarck - Mandan vs. Steele, 6:30 4130 “Bet, yuh fool!” o'clock tonight, city athletic field. 4121 0 / “It seemed to ease the tension for Bismarck - Mandan 4000) ¥ @ moment and Richey slid forward a 412121 f stack of blues. Dad measured it with 4092 0 a couple more. MacCoy scratched his 9 4000 chin, thinking, then he matched the Jerry Peterson goes free, 3000 three blue stacks with another three. JOE LUNDY. 3 01 Qo. It was now Lundy's bet. His hunched-| “It'll cost yuh the Two Brothers to 3 1 0 O up shoulders almost paralleled the | call me,’ Lundy whispered. = see sides of his head and he blinked owl-| “Dad said he had known it was! Rotary Cubs vs. Mandan, 2:30 p.m} _Totals ............. 3304 27 4 ishly at dad, who was trying to fathom his expression. Lundy mut- tered something to himself, then he fuagenly raised MacCoy a stack of ues. “Richey skinned his cards, hesi- tated, made a rapid calculation, and measured Lundy’s four stacks with five. Dad saw the bet and raised it coming, just as he had known Lundy’s mad ambition to that had driven him to propose this crazy game. He wondered if the thing were real... if he weren't going mad. And then he saw that dark tunnel again and a white-faced kid listening and waiting, 00100 0 0 0 0-1: P. knew it was real... Had Lundy STRASBURG 8; WISHEK 2 two stacks of blues. 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